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Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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(FYI:There is an affiliate link in this post.  If you hit the amazon link and buy anything  I get a % without any added cost to you.  So please hit the link and go shopping:-) The Guernsey Literary and potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Genre - Historical Fiction Pages 274 Ratings: Amazon-4.3/5 GoodReads-4.13/5                                                    Quote from Amazon... "As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig fa...

Book Review; The Woman in the Window by A.J.Finn

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"The Woman in the Widow" Author-A.J. Finn Genre-Fiction Pages 427 Ratings: Amazon 4/5 stars. Good Reads 4.3/5 stars.                                                        Below is a description from GoodReads . "Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seem...

Book Review "Night of Fire" by Colin Thubron

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"Night of Fire" Author-Colin Thubron Genres-Fiction Pages 358                                                                     Here is a description from the book back cover, "A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants—including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord,  whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their  preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate." This "Night of Fire" enters the lives of people living as tenants in an aging Victorian home.  I found this story to be more a review of the tenant's life before the night of fire and not so much about the few moments this fire touched their lives. Does the title describe th...